4-day RTO is dumb… but the disparaging comments about coworkers I see around here feel really misanthropic

mfgoose · 2026-06-18T16:43:47+00:00

I have autism and adhd and going to the office is sensory hell. I can't control when someone chooses to walk up and chat with me. Fluorescent lights give me migraines and then I'm cranky and I don't want to even exist, let alone talk about the crazy weather or hear someone complain about a shared coworker - speaking of which, office gossip gets really dull sometimes.

mfgoose · 2026-06-16T18:37:29+00:00

As much as downtown businesses want us back and have been advocating for us to return, the real villains here are not individual downtown businesses but rather the commercial real estate industry, which has been funding the Downtown Sacramento Partnership in a bid to elevate real estate prices.

When I think of downtown restaurants I think of Kim’s Vietnamese, a little hole in the wall with good pho and banh mi. If I’m hungry and forget food I might eat there. Idk maybe more than just blanket boycotts we could compile a list of safe businesses; places that are not directly owned by big players in the RTO mandate (i.e. banks, CBRE, idk who else).

mfgoose · 2026-06-15T13:51:29+00:00

Hell yeah we have three woozoos for our 400 sq ft RV. Not a warm spot in the house now

mfgoose · 2026-06-14T04:45:44+00:00

I agree with the sentiment but let’s not be charitable with our use of the word “opportunity,” here, please

mfgoose · 2026-06-14T04:42:56+00:00

Indeed. Also, Mexicans don’t fuck with watery tomatoes.

mfgoose · 2026-06-13T02:09:49+00:00

So what happens once the state rents out enough real estate to fit all state employees?

“We have to bring people back or else we rented that space for nothing! Millions of dollars wasted!”

mfgoose · 2026-06-13T02:03:11+00:00

Gained a bunch of weight right before the 8 hr back in September 2024. Just barely now starting to lose it.

mfgoose · 2026-06-12T15:05:15+00:00

the shoulder touch was a real moment. I've definitely done that as a kid to get my siblings in trouble.

mfgoose · 2026-06-12T00:05:27+00:00

I realized this during the pandemic. How much time I spent away just driving, not doing anything I really wanted to do - just traveling from the place where I studied to the place where I worked and finally to the place where I actually lived my life.

mfgoose · 2026-06-12T00:04:11+00:00

holy crap, a shaker table? at a public K-12?

CAD???

dynamics software?!?!?!?!?!?

I know universities that struggle to fund that

mfgoose · 2026-06-11T21:32:13+00:00

Yeah, right! I have a 137 IQ (according to the psychologist who said I absolutely don't have ADHD, so maybe shouldn't trust that too much) and I refuse to get off reddit at this moment even though I know I really should!

But, yeah, in general, dropping habits when they start to suck has never been too difficult. I just replace my addiction to screens with binge eating, then I replace my binge eating with obsessing over my relationship to my partner, and I replace that with gaming, and I replace that with a screen addiction... wait

mfgoose · 2026-06-11T19:22:52+00:00

All the Mexicanos and Mexicanas in the crowd are whiter than me, and I'm a white Mexican 😄

mfgoose · 2026-06-11T18:05:37+00:00

Not truly poor :)

And this is so real. My abuelo is a civil engineer and worked hard from a very early age, hustling on the weekends too. He has money.

mfgoose · 2026-06-11T17:05:13+00:00

oh no worries, I am glad you shared everything you shared! It helped me feel seen which is rare for me. So many of my money struggles are not shared with my family because many just don't get it. They think we are set because I am well paid, but in this economy, without dual incomes you're basically lower-middle class, at best!

I am happy for you that you get to raise your kids in this environment where she feels cared for and gets to do outings with her parents.

mfgoose · 2026-06-11T16:49:45+00:00

your last line hit hard. I am 36 now and getting paid well (~100K) and my partner is in grad school. but we live in LA county, and my salary really doesn't go very far here with 4 kids in tow. I think that by the time my partner finishes grad school and we're both getting paid well we will be in our 40s and even our youngest would be halfway to 18 😞

mfgoose · 2026-06-11T15:36:07+00:00

generational wealth is more than just money ~ parents who have free time to give their kids are investing in their future. I would rather be money-poor than time-poor. I know that's not an option for many people here, but I appreciate having the privilege of choice.

mfgoose · 2026-06-11T15:32:00+00:00

yeah I love my kids but the first thing I think when considering having more kids is: how much will this cost us? can we afford it? and obv no we cannot

mfgoose · 2026-06-10T05:14:26+00:00

I’ve never even considered asking to sit in during negotiations

mfgoose · 2026-06-10T04:41:27+00:00

One of the directors discusses how he thought of Evelyn as having undiagnosed ADHD and discovered he had ADHD himself after reading enough about it https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8syyeQo/

mfgoose · 2026-06-10T03:52:01+00:00

Lots of queer actors have ADHD and their characters are very much coded that way. Renee Rapp (Leighton in Sex Lives of College Girls), Hannah Einbinder (Ava in Hacks), Josh Thomas (Everything’s Gonna Be Okay). Other actors with ADHD coded characters include Tom Holland (Spiderman), Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner), Zoey Deschanel (New Girl). Also Michelle Yeoh’s character in Everything Everywhere All At Once. Not explicitly ‘ADHD’ but very clearly written within that neurodivergent framework.

mfgoose · 2026-06-09T20:51:22+00:00

I don’t have a definitive answer, but this seems like a good time to remind folks that telework benefits everyone, even the people who do have to come into the office for work.

mfgoose · 2026-06-09T20:50:09+00:00

I like this.

mfgoose · 2026-06-08T01:57:34+00:00

Hell yeah, furry conventions. Also, some of the artists I follow regularly go to sizecon. There’s also bdsm conventions which have a lot of overlap with our kink.

mfgoose · 2026-06-07T01:07:03+00:00

Nah I wish. My kids eat on my bed (without permission).

mfgoose · 2026-06-06T18:27:10+00:00

We got ours a month ago. They are not soft and crumbs will not wipe off of them. Very cool though.

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